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i´m looking for the maker of this 70´s lamp-base. it´s made of a very thin layer clearglass, cased white, cased blue. very nice baluster-shape - quite like it!the top rim appears to be machine cut; it´s not been ground afterwards.

40cm (resp. ~16") tall

anyone dare a guess or even better know who made it? scandinavian... italian?if anyone recognise it, what would a matching lamp-shade look like?

Your lamp base is very similar to some vases Carlo Moretti did in 1970. Some of the vases are shown on page 49 of Pina's Italian Glass Century 20. I am never sure with this type of glass, since similar Scandinavian and non-Murano Italian pieces wre made. The vases in Pina's book are not the same as your base, but are similar, so maybe...

thanks, Anita! i´m tending to think it should be possible to find anattribution, since it must be a tricky and rather skilled job to makesuch a large form and therefor it can´t have been made by ´thelittle lampworker around the corner´... thinking aloud ...

i don´t have Pina´s book to compare, but think i have a vagueimpression about the vases you mentioned.i´ll try to get some better pictures tomorrow.

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I checked Pina's book a bit more. She also has two Moretti lamps toward the back of the book. Neither is like yours, but both are the same lumpy form -- is that called ballister? I am so bad at terminology. I don't know if Moretti did dark blue, but they did so many colors that it wouldn't be surprising if they did.

The shade of blue, and the overall shape, reminds me of Hirschberg and Friedrich Kristall, Germany, although I've never seen lampbases from either of them, nor vases of this size. But they're a possibility.

agreed, Nic. i haven´t seen anything taller than 20 something by any of them.Friedrich surely used this cobalt blue, but i´m unsure about Hirschberg. theones i handled were made of an opaque blue cased clear. did they use whitecased dark blue?i´ve attached a picture of a more straight view of the lamp-base and acomparative picture with a Hirschberg vase.sorry, we´ve got terrible weather today - and so have become the photos!

yep, know what you mean, Nic. (the ones a certain site of 20th c glass attributesas scandinavian )the one on the Empoli site seems to have a smooth top rim though. Have you comeacross cased Hirschberg vases, that weren´t ground and polished?

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